✔️ 2022-03-23 00:45:00 – Paris/France.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office failed to seek a warrant to confiscate a firearm used in an armed robbery by a serial offender - who later fatally shot a man with the same weapon exactly one month later, said a union boss.
Tyrell Rodgers, 29, allegedly pointed the silver gun at his girlfriend and stole her cellphone while threatening to kill her on February 8, court records show. Then he allegedly killed a man with this revolver on March 8 - after Bragg's office failed to issue a warrant requested by detectives handling the robbery case.
“Why didn't DA Bragg's office act? asked Detective Association President Paul DiGiacomo. “Why did another New Yorker have to die? »
Rodgers, who has 23 prior arrests on his record, was charged with second degree murder, attempted second degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon for the March 8 murder, court records show.
During the alleged February robbery, he pointed the silver gun at his girlfriend and baby and said 'give me the phone or I'll kill you and everyone you love', court documents show. Rodgers then picked up the cell phone and left the scene.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is charged with failing to act on a police warrant. Steven Hirsch
Detectives requested a warrant to search for the handgun after the theft was reported on February 17. DiGiacomo said the mandate never materialized.
Two and a half weeks later, Rodgers took the gun to West 19th Street and Ninth Avenue around 22 p.m. to meet a man he had argued with on the phone, court records show.
It was unclear what the argument was about, but Rodgers fired the gun and a bullet hit the man he had argued with in the right arm, records show. The friend of the man standing beside him was shot in the stomach and pronounced dead about an hour later at Bellevue Hospital.
Rodgers was arrested two days later, on March 10, the day the warrant was finally executed by Bragg's office.
Tyrell Rodgers has 23 prior arrests on file.William Miller Police at the scene of the double shooting at 9th Ave and W 19th St. in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan.William Miller Police block off the crime scene.William Miller
Detectives searched Rodger's apartment at 321 East 153rd Street and quickly confiscated the gun that video surveillance showed him firing, records show. It matched the description of the weapon the girlfriend told Detective Rodgers to threaten her with.
“Inside the apartment, I recovered a dark hooded jacket, a dark face mask and a dark colored backpack which appears to match the type of clothing the shooter was wearing in the video,” wrote the detective in court documents. “Inside the dark backpack inside a fanny pack, I retrieved a silver revolver. »
Rodgers was sent to Riker's Island on $100 cash bond or $000 bond.
A question to Bragg's office asking what happened with the initial warrant request was not immediately answered.
Additional reporting by Tamar Lapin
SOURCE: Reviews News
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